Author: Dennis Romero / Source: NBC News
President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to place a Navy SEAL accused of killing a teenage captive in Iraq in “less restrictive confinement” while he awaits trial.
His tweet comes as a group of federal lawmakers have been lobbying to get Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher out of the brig in San Diego as he prepares to fight war crime allegations in court.
Trump tweeted that Gallagher shouldn’t be held in such confinement because he had served the nation.
Gallagher has been detained at the Naval Consolidated Brig Miramar since Sept. 11.
He is accused of fatally stabbing an Islamic State prisoner under his care in 2017 in what prosecutors say was a premeditated act. The prisoner, estimated to be about 15 years old, was slashed in the neck and body, they said.
Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent Joe Warpinski said during a hearing that a witness, a SEAL medic, told him Gallagher “walked up without saying anything at all”…
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